IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77202102-1

Publication

Phytotaxa

Collation

415(5): 265

Date of Publication

5 Sep 2019

Family as entered in IPNI

Myrtaceae

Type Information

Collector Team

G.T. Prance, A.S. Silva, M.J. Balick, A.J. Henderson, R.P. Bahia & M.R. dos Santos P25792

Locality

10 km of Itaituba, Transamazonica, BR 230, forest of Terra Firme

Collection Date

26 Nov 1977

Type Herbaria

holotype IAN 156011
isotype MG 060391

Distribution Of Types

Pará (Brazil North, Brazil, Southern America)

Nomenclatural Notes

[epublished]

Remarks

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.415.5.2 The epithet is a combination of the Greek words 'lasio' (woolly) and 'thecium' (small container), alluding to the unusual character of woolly fibres enveloping the ovules within the ovary.